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From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New Project Proposal: User Tools
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 17:50:53
Message-Id: 20031120185046.1d189c28.genone@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] New Project Proposal: User Tools by Ian Leitch
1 On 11/20/03 Ian Leitch wrote:
2
3 > Hi everyone,
4 >
5 > Yesterday I began work on a GTK version of the tool guitooEtcetera[1]
6 > which is in early alpha stages. gEtcetera[2] (my GTK version) and
7 > guitooEtcetera are GUI tools for updating CONFIG_PROTECTed
8 > directories. A simplified etc-update is near the top of many users
9 > wish list, hence the creation of these tools.
10 >
11 > I propose a project that aims to turn aspects of Gentoos operation
12 > into GUI applications.
13 > Including, but not limited to:
14 > etc-update
15 > portage (A complete and finished tool this time)
16 > rc
17 >
18 > The project team would aim to provide GTK and Qt based versions of
19 > each tool.
20 >
21 > Having users use tools developed by us(Gentoo), we will be able to
22 > apply a certain level of QA and consistency.
23
24 IMO it's part of the tools-portage (for the portage interface) and
25 desktop-research (for the GUI integration) subprojects.
26
27 Marius
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32 In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be
33 Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better.